Dictionary Catalogue of the First 505 Volumes of Everymans Library
Dictionary Catalogue of the First 505 Volumes of Everymans Library
Isabella Mitchell Cooper
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C. I46-A. D. 716. 1877. 185. " George Finlay, " said the late Dr. Richard Garnett, " was a great historian of the type of Polybius, Procopius, and Machiavelli. He was a man-of- affairs before he was a man-of-letters : he qualified himself for writing history by helping to make it. '* The present work shows how the local institutions of the Greeks were practically unaffected by the presence of any conquering power ; tracing, in particular, the effects of those ancient institutions on the fortune...s of the people under the Roman Government. History of the Byzantine Empire from 716 to 1057. 1854. 33- With an enthusiasm not less than Lord Byron's, George Finlay gave his life and wealth in his efforts to promote the renaissance of a New Greece. His histories are not in the popular style, but are the result of fifty years' residence and study in Greece put in such form as appeals to the student, and permeated with the author's great ardour in the Hellenic cause, which gleams upon every page. " I would rather be the author of your histories than Prime Minister of England.
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